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I drove up to the window to pay for our order, and the barista told me that the car in front of us had already paid for it. It was such a fun, thoughtful surprise and added a little sunshine to my already-great day. To pay it forward, I took care of the car behind us. I wonder how long the pattern lasted? It was great motivation to think of more little acts of kindness, and maybe surprise the car behind us more often.

Some Friday adventures:

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Liv and I met up with Kyle and Meg at Whole Foods for lunch (we shared a green juice, potato salad, salmon salad, veggies, chicken drumstick, and fish)

and then hit up a giant baby/kids consignment sale.

It was a Just Between Friends sales, similar to one I went to with Jeni in Vegas. I wish I would have known about it sooner since I’ve decided to go ahead and sell our Orbit system. It would have been an easy place to do it! We found a couple of cute things for my cousin’s baby, a puzzle for Liv, and she picked out the cutest little plush baby… and then it started talking. And talking and talking as we walked around. It was enough for me to make the batteries “disappear” if we bought it, but even worse was the fact that it was a hypochondriac baby.

“Will you take my temperature?” “Cough, cough” “Thank you for talking care of me” “I’m siiiiiiiiick”

As soon as Liv dropped it while we were walking around, it quickly found its way back onto the shelf.

We were supposed to go to a squadron event, but my military ID is expired and the Pilot was in a meeting, so we hung out at the madre’s, all went to dinner

and called it a night.

Tonight I’ll have the Winter Shape Up meal ideas and sample grocery list for all my early shopping friends! I hope you’re as excited as I am to get the party started.

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lisaon January 26, 2013 at 5:44 pm

The Starbucks thing is cool, it happened to me once before our church pastor used it as an example for random acts of kindness. He followed-up with a Starbucks employee the next week who said that they had a chain of 36 cars all who paid it forward!

I actually make sure to do this every week. I’m a hopeless Starbucks addict and figure if I’m spending so much money and time there I might as well do something nice. People are really great, it’s awesome when something like that happens and it can completely turn your day around! I always find it especially helpful if I’m having a bad day to just simply do something nice. It doesn’t take a lot of effort and it feels pretty awesome. It’s always awesome to hear people doing random acts of kindness!:)

I love hearing those kinds of stories about random acts of kindness. It just makes me feel all warm and fuzzy knowing that great things like that happen all around us.

In reference to your military ID being expired; have your hubby digitally represent/sign the form of sponsorship for you via web! That way, he doesn’t have to take time off work to go with you, and you and Liv can go by yourselves.

That happened to me at Starbucks back in December! It totally made my day and then can you believe I went to a different Starbucks the next day and the same thing happened again! The car in front of me paid for my drink. So crazy! Haha 🙂

I love the pay it forward! It was big news recently up her in Canada that at one Tim Horton’s drive thru, people kept it going for 228 orders! Such an easy way to do something unexpectedly nice and brighten up someone’s da!

I LOVE the acts of kindness that have been floating around. You never know someone else’s situation and you can really brighten their day/mood/attitude. Thanks for sharing, it warms my heart to think about.

I worked at a cafe for years and it was always the greatest thing to tell the person in line that a person before them paid for their drink. It’s those simple acts of kindness that are such heart happy stuff! 🙂

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